THE AUSTRALIAN

ACROSS

1 Aboriginal community near Cairns (8) 6 Rupert Murdoch’s Australian subsidiary, … Ltd. (4) 10 Home Hill’s twin town in North Queensland (3) 11 Grocon founder who built the Rialto and Eureka towers (5,6) 12 Pianist and Country Gardens composer, Percy … (8) 13 NT Aboriginal community also called Port Keats (6) 15 Bases such as Tindal, NT or Amberley, Queensland (1,1,1,1) 16 Party formed by the 1955 ALP split, … Labor (10) 18 Bruce Beresford’s 1977 film,

……of Wisdom (3,7) 20 Redgum’s 1984 song, I’ve Been to

…Too (4) 23 Ned Kelly’s reputed last words, “Such … …” (2,4) 24 Joe Camilleri’s band, … … … & the Falcons (2,2,4) 26 Barry Humphries’ Moonee Ponds-born dame (4,7) 27 Holden Monaro’s name in the US, Pontiac … (1,1,1) 28 Pickup trucks (4) 29 Iconic 1953–57 GMH model (1,1,6)

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2 Late WheelofFortune hostess born in Argentina in 1955, … Xenides (7) 3 Gold Coast suburb, home to The Titans (6) 4 Cartoonist whose film Leisure won an Oscar in 1976 (5,5) 5 Tasmanian river and pine tree (4) 6 Cotton town between Moree and Gunnedah (8) 7 Outback NSW town, west of 6-down (7) 8 Wine region of WA (8,5) 9 Newsreader and ThisIsYourLife presenter (5,8) 14 WWI commander with a Melbourne university named after him (4,6) 17 ‘Queen of Country’, Gina … (8) 19 ‘Large island’ east of Arnhem Land, Groote … (7) 21 Pat Cash’s TV comedy sports show,

……ofTheirOwn (1-6) 22 1990–91 Democrats leader, Janet … (6) 25 The Wiggles’ song, WakeUp… (4)